Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

Painful stitches through the whole head when coughing; the whole head burns. Intense heat of the head;burning pain. Rush of blood to the head followed by nose-bleed.Congestion to the head with spasmodic constriction, nausea, and pressure over the eyes. Afeeling as of an oncoming coryza from an overheated room. Many of these head aches come on fromtaking cold, from coryza, from slacking up of an old catarrh. The Carbo veg. patient suffers fromchronic catarrh. He is at his best when he has a free discharge from the nose, but if he takes cold andthe discharge stops congestion to the head comes. He cannot stand suppression of discharges.Headaches come on every time he takes cold; from cold damp weather; from going into a cold dampplace and becoming chilled. Awful occipital headache, or headache over the eyes, or headacheinvolving the whole head, with pounding like hammers. These states are like Kali bichromicum, Kaliiodatum and Sepia. Many of these headaches are due to stopped catarrhal conditions.The hair falls out by the handful. Eruptions come out upon the head. School girls and boys, too,who are sluggish, slow to learn, and suffer from night terrors; they will not sleep alone, or go into adark room without someone with them. They have headaches, worse from pressure of the hat. A longtime after taking off the hat they still feel the pressure. Sweat, cold sweat; particularly sweat of the headand of the forehead. The Carbo veg. patient breaks out into a copious sweat appearing first on theforehead forehead, and the sweat is cold. The forehead feels cold to the hand, and any wind blowingupon it will produce pain; he wants it covered up. Head sensitive to cold. If he becomes overheated andhis head perspires, and then a draft strikes that sweating head, his catarrh will stop at once andheadaches will come on. His knees and hands and feet get cold, and he sweats without relief.The eye symptoms are troublesome, and they often occur along with the headache. Burning painin the eyes. The eyes become lusterless, deep set and the pupils do not react to light. He feels sluggishmentally, and does not want to think. He wants to sit or lie around, for every exertion gives him aheadache.Whenever this state is present the eyes show it. You know he is sick because the bright,sparkling look has gone out of his eyes.If he could only get somewhere by himself and lie down---provided it was not dark---he wouldbe comfortable. He wants to be let alone; he is tired; his day's work wears him out. He comes homewith a purple face, lusterless eyes, sunken countenance, tired head and mind. Any mental exertioncauses fatigue. Weight in the head, distress and fullness in the head, with cold extremities.The blood mounts upward. Hemorrhages from the eyes; burning, itching and pressing in theeyes. The eyes become weak from overwork or from fine work.Carbo veg. is one of the medicines for discharges from the ears. Offensive, watery, ichorous;acrid and excoriating discharges, especially those dating back to malaria, measles or scarlet fever---particularly to scarlet fever. A sluggish condition of the venous system. The veins seem to be mostaffected in all old complaints, especially whenever a patient says of himself, or a mother says of herchild, that he has never been quite well since an attack of malarial fever. The daughter has never beenquite well since she had the measles, or typhoid fever, or scarlet fever. Carbo. veg. is one of themedicines to be thought of when symptoms are in confusion and the patient has been so much doctoredthat there is no congruity left in the symptoms. Old ear discharges, or old headaches, when all thesymptoms have been suppressed. It is then Carbo veg. often becomes one of the routine remedies tobring symptoms into order and to establish a more wholesome discharge from that car. It brings aboutreaction, establishes a better circulation and partially cures the case, after which a better remedy may beselected.Inflammation of the parotid glands, or mumps. When mumps change their abode, from beingchilled, and go in the girl to the mammary glands, and in the boy to the testes, Carbo veg. is one of themedicines to restore order; very often it will bring the trouble back to its original place, and conduct iton through in safety. Pains in the ear. Passive, badly smelling discharges from the ear. Loss of hearing.Ulceration of the internal ear.Something heavy seems to lie before the ears; they seem stopped; the hearing is diminished,especially in those cases that date back to some old trouble.The Carbo veg. patient is always suffering from coryza. He goes into a warm room, and,thinking he is going out in a minute, he keeps his overcoat on. Pretty soon he begins to get heated up,but he thinks he will go in a minute and he does not take off his coat. A procedure like that is sure tobring on a coryza. It will commence in the nose, with watery discharge, and he will sneeze, day andnight. He suffers from the heat and is chilled by the cold; every draft chills him; and a warm roommakes him sweat and thus he suffers from both. He can find no comfortable place, and he goes onsneezing and blowing his nose. Perhaps he has bleeding from the nose. At night he is purple. Thecoryza extends into the throat and brings on rawness and dryness in the mouth and throat.